Switch up your listening with classical music
Episode m001n828, broadcast at Tuesday 4th July 2023, 7:00pm.
“Music for a royal wedding at the Medici court in Florence in 1589 begins tonight's sequence, which also takes in a Handel aria, a serene Brahms symphonic movement, and the Vitamin Quartet's version of the Dolly Parton classic 'I will always love you'.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Una stravaganza dei Medici (The 1589 Florentine Intermedi), I. The Harmony of the Spheres - Sinfonia a 6 (track 3, La Pellegrina)
- Conductor Andrew Parrott
- Composer Hugh Keyte
- Composer Cristofano Malvezzi
- 2:26 – Symphony No. 94 in G in G major, H. 1/94 "mit dem Paukenschlag": Finale. Allegro (track 8, Sinfonien 93, 94 und 103)
- Composer Joseph Haydn
- Conductor Jack Martin Händler
- 6:03 – I will always love you (Bridgerton cover)
- Ensemble Vitamin String Quartet
- Composer Dolly Parton
- 10:48 – Lascia ch'io pianga from Rinaldo
- Composer George Frideric Handel
- Orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro
- Conductor Maxim Emelyanychev
- Singer Joyce DiDonato
- 16:07 – Symphony No 1 in C minor, Op 68 (2nd mvt) (track 4, Brahms: 4 Symphonies: Berlin Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado)
- Composer Johannes Brahms
- Orchestra Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- Conductor Claudio Abbado
- 25:41 – Nocturne in E minor Op.72`1 (track 9, Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires)
- Composer Frédéric Chopin
- Performer Maria João Pires